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Eighty-eight movies have been awarded Hollywoods highest honor.

Most people have never seen all of them and thats probably for the best.

13. Clark Gable as Peter Warne

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The AFI list of the100 Greatest American Filmsonly includes 27 Best Picture winners.

A movie like 1952s winnerThe Greatest Show on Earthhas rates44 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, lower thanTwilight.

Even in the last 15 years there have been a couple of head-scratchers.

Directed by Michael Curtiz WWII movie perfection. Hollywood’s most celebrated love story was made as just an average studio pic but now exemplifies old-movie magic.

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Well, actually nine.

The list was curated by Metrographs programmers Jacob Perlin and Aliza Ma.

Take a look at Metrographs list (below) and weigh in about your personal favorite Best Picture.

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The full schedule of Metrographs series can be found on itswebsite.

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Directed by John Schlesinger Jon Voight, as a naive would-be gigolo, and Dustin Hoffman, as a down-and-out disabled con artist, make for filmdom’s most moving

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Unforgiven, Clint Eastwood

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Original: Infernal Affairs (2002) Your rank: #2 (21.73% of vote) We say: Director Martin Scorsese transplanted the original cat-and-mouse thriller from gleaming Hong Kong to

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Kathryn Bigelow’s brilliant portrait of bomb defusers during the Iraq war uses the hair-trigger suspense of men who could die at any moment to express